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IUCN says no to GMOs
At the World Conservation Congress III in Thailand in 2004, the IUCN members adopted a resolution that calls for a moratorium on GMOs. The resolution calls for a "moratorium on further environmental releases of GMOs until these can be demonstrated to be safe for biodiversity, and for human and animal health, beyond reasonable doubt”. Members requested IUCN to promote information and communication on GMOs, especially in developing countries, and to support initiatives to ratify and implement the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety. This webpage is a part of that effort. IUCN resolutions have the force of policy for the Union.
The IUCN Council asked CEESP—the IUCN Commission on Environmental, Economic and Social Policy— to set up and maintain the IUCN web site on GMOs. This page was set up by the CEESP Theme on Sustainable Livelihoods and Pro-poor Conservation, as a result of that request.
Comments, suggestions for improvement and views are welcome and may be sent to the Site Administrator: Maryam Rahmanian (maryam@cenesta.org) with a copy to CEESP Executive Officer Barbara Lassen (barbara@cenesta.org)
IUCN
policy related to GMOs
IUCN
activities and publications on GMOs and Biosafety
Activities
related to the GMO moratorium
The Director General has sent a letter announcing IUCN’s call for a moratorium to relevant UN agencies and IGOs, Ministers of Environment, and all NGO and INGO IUCN
members. In addition, IUCN’s Business and
Biodiversity Unit has been contacting businesses with which IUCN is working
directly to notify them of the call for a moratorium on GMOs.
Other
activities
IUCN
material on agroecology, sustainable agriculture, and related topics
IUCN Commission on Environmental,
Economic and Social Policy (CEESP)
IUCN Social Policy webpage
Ecosystem Management
Publications
Agricultural
biological diversity: discussion paper
Agriculture and
biodiversity
Agroecology
and the struggle for food sovereignty in the Americas
Agroecology
versus ecoagriculture : balancing food production
and biodiversity conservation in the mids of social
inequity
Ecoagriculture : strategies to feed the world and save
biodiversity
Sharing
power: learning-by-doing in co-management of natural resources throughout of
the world
Sowing the seeds for
sustainability: agriculture, biodiversity, economics and society -
Proceedings of the eighth interactive session held at the second IUCN World
Conservation Congress
The
relationship between nature conservation, biodiversity and organic
agriculture : proceedings of an international workshop held in Vignola, Italy 1999
Unraveling the DNA Myth: The Spurious Foundation of Genetic Engineering (Barry Commoner, Harper's Magazine Feb 02)
Impacts
of GMOs on biodiversity (links to external
websites)
Agriculture/
Organisms webpage of the Biosafety Information Centre
Biodiversity
page of GMO Safety website
Econexus
Environmental
impacts webpage of the Bio-Tech Info website
Norwegian Institute
of Gene Ecology
Stop GE Trees Campaign
Links
to some organizations working on GMOs
Ban Terminator Campaign
BEDE : Bibliothèque d'Echange de
Documentation et d'Expériences
Websites
of IUCN member organizations working on GMOs
Cenesta
Friends of the Earth
International > GMO Campaign
Green
Line
IIED
IFOAM
Legambiente
Pro Natura
Sierra Club >
genetic engineering
Worldwatch Institute
WWF
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